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Re: WARP is here

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Post by eastdakota » Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 2:20 PM UTC

mwcampbell wrote: post #17

I was openly critical of Cloudflare when they announced Warp the first time. My accusations were over-reaching, and I ultimately retracted them. But I'm still skeptical, and I still won't use Warp. Here's what still bothers me: Cloudflare is a single company with points of presence all over the world, handling traffic for websites all over the world (including some big ones), and now trying to attract consumers world…

Early on in Cloudflare’s history when we were asked who our competition was we said Facebook. The concern was that the challenges of being online would get so hard that individual websites would give up and just move to run Facebook pages. We saw our role as providing the security and performance needed to compete without making you give in to use an all-consuming platform.

We haven’t said that in a long time, but I was reminded of it while we were on our IPO Road Show. One investor we met with said:

“Here’s how I think of you: Cloudflare is to Facebook as Shopify is to Amazon.”

That resonated to me and reminded me of our earliest days and why we started the company.

So I appreciate the concern but hope there will always be more independent web because we exist than there would be if we didn’t.

Re: WARP is here

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Post by eastdakota » Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 2:22 PM UTC

kristofferR wrote: post #37

It's borderline unusable for me. It takes 20 seconds for every YouTube video to load while they load instantaneous without WARP: https://streamable.com/9tp1k

Please file a bug report.

Re: WARP is here

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Post by ianmurrays » Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 2:22 PM UTC

ksec wrote: post #23

Just wanted to say Thank You. I could only wish this was released a little sooner, but better late than Never. The Hong Kong people desperately need something like this to avoid ISP monitoring. I wonder if something similar is planned for Windows and Mac? P.S Regarding the 10GB, have been on the waiting list since April 1st, nothing shown up yet.

I don't see it either, perhaps a slow rollout?

Re: WARP is here

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Post by atonse » Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 2:27 PM UTC

Great news! I'm still 155k on the warp waitlist since April. Is there a plan to push the waitlist along?

I'd love to get my non-tech family on this.

Re: WARP is here

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Post by cj » Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 2:27 PM UTC

mwcampbell wrote: post #17

I was openly critical of Cloudflare when they announced Warp the first time. My accusations were over-reaching, and I ultimately retracted them. But I'm still skeptical, and I still won't use Warp. Here's what still bothers me: Cloudflare is a single company with points of presence all over the world, handling traffic for websites all over the world (including some big ones), and now trying to attract consumers world…

I agree using Cloudflare proxy (or really any VPN) gives the company a lot of power.

But the idea of Cloudflare intercepting all of my traffic doesn't bother me since the alternative is simply another company (Spectrum, or my random friend's wifi, or Starbucks) intercepting all of my traffic by virtue of being my ISP. It's up to you which is the lesser of two evils.

I suppose Cloudflare may have more insight into the data being proxied if they're also managing the SSL certificates at the other end, however.

Re: WARP is here

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Post by cocoggu » Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 2:30 PM UTC

Works fine in Beijing, thanks!

Re: WARP is here

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Post by Sami_Lehtinen » Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 2:30 PM UTC

Nobody mentioned IPv6 support yet. It's nice as well. There are many VPN providers out there without IPv6 support.

Re: WARP is here

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Post by basch » Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 2:31 PM UTC

r1ch wrote: post #31

fnordsensei wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you going out of your way to forward the original IP to the end recipient? What's the point of that? Is it to support IP authenticated logins or similar?

Most likely so the receivers of abusive traffic can contact the original ISP rather than Cloudflare having to deal with abuse reports.

analytics.

Re: WARP is here

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Post by zackbloom » Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 2:31 PM UTC

atonse wrote: post #44

Great news! I'm still 155k on the warp waitlist since April. Is there a plan to push the waitlist along? I'd love to get my non-tech family on this.

Yes, we are running through the waitlist now. Our hope is to get everyone activated today.

Re: WARP is here

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Post by zackbloom » Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 2:32 PM UTC

philliphaydon wrote: post #20

I switched it on this morning and switched it off again after 10 minutes. It was so slow I couldn’t load web pages or send messages on WhatsApp. Maybe too many people joining in a short time.

Please be sure to file a bug report in the app if you can. Every report helps us fix issues and make WARP better.